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A person was arrested for allegedly selling alcohol illegally in the Viharamawatha area in Mount Lavinia while police seized a large stock of alcohol from the suspect during the raid. Police were able to seize 21 bottles of alcohol and 167 (500ml) bottles of beer. The suspect is a 20 year old resident of Baragama while he is scheduled to be presented before the Mount Lavinia Magistrate Court today (June 24).

The federal court in Virginia where the Justice Department has decided to charge Edward Snowden with leaking secrets about U.S. surveillance programs has a long track record of hearing cases related not only to national security cases but also to cyber crime. The United States filed a criminal complaint including charges under a U.S. espionage law against Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The charges are the government's first step in an effort to arrest and extradite Snowden from Hong Kong, where he is in hiding, to try him in the United States. Snowden has acknowledged leaking secrets about classified U.S. surveillance programs to the Washington Post and Britain's Guardian newspaper. On Saturday, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said Snowden had divulged information to the newspaper showing how computers in Hong Kong and China had been targeted. On Friday, the Guardian